(Slight) Changes to Job Crystal System

[Yonko]

Using White Mage as another example:

[White Mage]
30: Divine Seal
35: Regen
40: Cure III (trading from a class ability)
45: Benediction
50: Holy

[Geomancer] (Example Conjurer DPS)
30: Torrent
35: Quicksand
40: Snowstorm
45: Wind Blast
50: Magma Surge

(Geomancer ability names also taken from FFT abilities)

The idea is you are given a much greater toolkit for healing as a White Mage. Geomancer would still has access to Cure and Cure II to assist with healing if necessary, but when equipped INT gear (I assume) and a limited toolkit, it wouldn't be nearly as effective (like BLM with Physick).

1) Your leaving Geomancer with Cleric's stance. Cleric stance means its better to gear MND and switch since you'd get a boost to damage since it gives you a 10% boost to Damage (and a -20% to healing) so all of the Geomancer healing skills are full strength.

2) Why are you removing Presence of Mind? Its not the best skill but certainly has its uses. If you wanted to remove a job skill since its not a "Healing" skill Holy would be the better option but try convincing a WHM to give up Holy. Medica/II are better AoE cures than Cure 3 90% of the time anyways.

[Ravenguard]

1) Your leaving Geomancer with Cleric's stance. Cleric stance means its better to gear MND and switch since you'd get a boost to damage since it gives you a 10% boost to Damage (and a -20% to healing) so all of the Geomancer healing skills are full strength.

Yeah, things like this would definitely need to be taken into consideration.

2) Why are you removing Presence of Mind? Its not the best skill but certainly has its uses. If you wanted to remove a job skill since its not a "Healing" skill Holy would be the better option but try convincing a WHM to give up Holy. Medica/II are better AoE cures than Cure 3 90% of the time anyways.

I'm not suggesting removing it, I would be exchanging it for a skill like Cure III. I think Presence of Mind would still be a useful skill for a DPS Conjurer so having it baseline makes sense (to me). Might you have a different suggestion?

As for Holy, I saw it as too much of an "iconic" White Mage ability to remove from their Job Crystal. Limits Job abilities, but couldn't bring myself to remove it.

[AniCelestine]

One concept I was brainstorming was a Ranger Job Crystal for Archer. To make this happen they would need to nerf Archer's innate skills slightly, and then rebuff them through the 5 abilities granted by the Ranger Job crystal. This way, if you required utility and group buffing, you can assist your team through your songs as Bard at the cost of damage. However, if you need more DPS (or already have a Bard in the group), you are able to equip the Ranger Job crystal and Pew Pew away for more deeps!

There is no need to change anything on the class, just one thing I'd find overpowered with this is the ability to move and shoot, so either make a skill that can only be activated while not moving, whihc increases dmg dealt and then when the player moves that "stance" drops and dmg dealt is lower, and then again once you stop moving you can activate it, wouldn't make it too much of a "LOL BLM NUB CNT MOVE AND I OUTDPS U EZ!" . Bard's lack of damage comes from their Weapon Damage on their bows. compare other physical DPS ilvl 110 WD 51 to Bards ilvl 110 WD 46

1) Your leaving Geomancer with Cleric's stance. Cleric stance means its better to gear MND and switch since you'd get a boost to damage since it gives you a 10% boost to Damage (and a -20% to healing) so all of the Geomancer healing skills are full strength.

There is no way you could gear up MND gear, if GEO used same gear as BLM/SMN does. Unless ofcourse you want to run in ilvl 55 gear, which is the highest to have both, mnd and int. So no problem there. Allthough GEO would need it's own class rather than branch off of CNJ, imo

2) Why are you removing Presence of Mind? Its not the best skill but certainly has its uses. If you wanted to remove a job skill since its not a "Healing" skill Holy would be the better option but try convincing a WHM to give up Holy. Medica/II are better AoE cures than Cure 3 90% of the time anyways.

Personally I don't use PoM at all, unless I holy spam. So imo PoM should be transfered to CNJ and Holy kept on WHM because it's pretty much WHM-specific spell in other FF's, no? Correct me if I'm wrong.